Tinker | Make | Play Engineers: Going From Playing Games to Powerful Inventions
Wednesdays & Saturdays | 28 March & 1, 4, 8, 11 April 2026 | 11am - 3.30pm
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28 March 11.00am – 11 April 3.30pm 2026
This Easter, we want to celebrate the power of play by having a go at and supersizing good old family games, join playful hands-on engineering challenges and explore digital play too.
Drop in | Included with admission
Coventry Transport Museum’s collection highlights how spending time playing about with ideas has led to automotive inventions. This Easter, we want to celebrate the power of play by having a go at and supersizing good old family games, join playful hands-on engineering challenges and explore digital play too.
TINKER away! With stuff, tools, your ideas and find out how things work, learn some tool skills and see where your curiosity will take you.
MAKE something! Anything! Use the huge variety of resources we offer. Get hands-on, creative and make your ideas (or our challenges) come true. Make something super big or really small and wow yourself and us too.
PLAY about! Push your imagination, raise your curiosity and simply play away. Whether you get into play mode during some maker challenges or in our play room, we love seeing families at play.
You will need to bring:
At least one very supportive grown-up to be with you throughout this workshop. We know from experience that all mums, dads, uncles, aunties, older siblings, grandparents, carers are perfectly qualified for this role as no previous engineering experience is needed (they are indeed very useful and really, really good at handing you tools)
We offer:
- A safe and relaxed space.
- Engineering Skills! You will use real tools to take apart or make things. So, you will build up your engineering skills no matter what.
- Permission to destroy! So you can fully explore some things, we let you break them AND you will not be told off*.
- Fun! We are prepared to throw one or two surprise maker challenges at you just to keep you on your toes.
- Expertise! Our amazing experts from the Learning Team will encourage you throughout. They are experts in playful engineering. That means they are curious, they persevere, are imaginative, love solving problems and teamwork. They will happily offer their expertise and support you when needed.
*Please note we take no responsibility for the inspiration we evoke in your children to destroy and create their own inventions with your household gadgets.
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